Non-refillable bottle.



M. AXELROOD.

NON-REPILLABLE BOTTLE. APPLICATION FILED JUNEIQ, 1905.

TH! NORRIS PETERS co" WASHINcroN. n c.

PATENTED JULY 1'7, 1906.

- tive view of the ballecage.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J uly 17, 1906.

Application filed June 19, 1905. Serial No. 265,962.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAX AxELRooD, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented new and useful Improvements" in Non-Refillable Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottles and attachments thereforwhereby the contents of the bottle are prevented from being replacedafter the bottle has once been emptied.

It comprises the combination of parts and details of construction, whichwill be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings,in which Figure 1 is a section of bottle and neck, showing my invention.Fig. 2 is a perspec- Fig. 3 is a plan of one of the radial valve-guides.Fig. 4 isa perspective view of the bafHe-disks.

A is the body of the bottle, having a neck formed with an indentedannular crease, as at 2. From this point the neck extends cylindricallyupward to a point where it is so molded or formed that another annulardepression or crease is made at 4. The shoulders 2 and 4 serve.to hold acasing containing the operative parts of my device. This casing consistsof cylinders 5 5*, made of thin metal, telescoping together at theirmeeting ends for convenience and construction.- The part 5" of thecasing is expanded after being introducedto interlock with thedepression 4, and the part 5 which telescopes into 5 and has a shoulderat this point, has its lower end abutting against the contraction of thelower end of the bottle-neck. A disk-sha ed bottom 7 is contained in thelower part 0 the casing having an upturned inner edge or flange 8,inclosing a central opening.

9 is a valve fixed upon the stem 10 and closable upon the seat. The stem10 has radial arm-guides 11 and 12, which approach the interior of thecasing, serving as a guide for the valve and also maintainin it substantially parallel with the edge of t e flange 8, upon which it isclosable. Above the seat is a truncated cone which may be made ofnoncorrosive metal. This cone is composed of alternate leaves 13 and 14,which are ent into different planes divergent downwardly, as shown inFig. 2, and these leaves formdivergent channels gradually widening fromthe center outwardly, so that when the bottle is inverted and theWeightof the liquid forces the valve 9 away from its seat the liquidwill then flow through the opening in the radial arm-guides 11 and 12,and finally out through the radial slots between the leaves'13 and 14.

within the conical cage formed by the leaves 13 and 14, and the spacebetween these (the cage and the upper radial guides 12) is in suchproportion to the size of the ball that if the bottle lies upon its sidethe ball will fit between the conical cage and the guide 12, so as tokeep the valve closed upon its seat, and it will not leave this positionuntil the bottle is turned to such a sharp angle with the neckdownwardly as will allow the ball to roll into the central portion ofthe cage, and thus relieve the pressure upon the valve and allow it tobe opened. In this inclined position no liquid can be passed into thebottle. In order to further guard the apparatus, I have shown threedisks 15, 16, and 17. The upper and lower disks are of smaller diameterthan the central one, and the three are united by studs or posts 18, sothat the disks lie closely together.

The central disk has a hole made through it of smaller diameter thaneither of the disks 15 and 16. This device is fixed in the space in thebottle-neck above the cage 13 14, and in this position the edge of thecentral disk 1 6 is fitted closely within the casing, and there will besufficient space around the peripheries of the other two disks to allowliquid to flow around these disks and through the central opening; butthis device interposes such a would be practically impossible tointroduce a wire or other instrument which might otherwise be assed downbetween the leaves 13 14 to hold the ball out of its normal position andpossibly allow the liquid to be inserted into the bottle.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

The combination of a bottle having a neck, a valve mechanism therein,and a twopart telescoping casin one part of which houses said valve mecanism, a guard located within the other part of said casing above thevalve mechanism, said guard consisting of three spaced disks, the upperand the seat, around the edge of the valve, through 15 is a ball ofconsiderable weight located tortuous passage from the outside that it Ilower of said disks being of smaller diameter In testimony whereof Ihave hereunto set than the central disk and of less diameter my hand inpresence of two subscribing witthan the interior of the casing, and thecentral nesses.

disk having a hole made throu h it of smaller MAX AXELROOD. 5 diameterthan the upper an lower disks, Witnesses:

said central disk having a diameter about S. H. NOURSE,

equal to that of the casing. F. O. FLIEDNER.

